Aact delivers nutrients?

Super obvious question just wanna make sure honestly. Does aact deliver nutrients to the plant because water is a universal solvent I'm like 99% sure it will contain nutrients just wanna be 100%

Aerated compost tea does contain "nutrients", especially humic and fulvic acids.
But its main purpose is to add lively microbial life to the soil, which in turn will then "deliver nutrients to the plant" by processing stuff in the soil

You can use teas to keep your soil active with microbes but it's more for feeding the soil than the plants. AACTs contain very low npk value but there are several kinds of nutrient teas you can give your plants. These are typically anaerobic fermented plant extracts (fpe) and are neither aerated nor use compost.
I prefer to give them what they need in the soil before ever putting plants in it. Then give an AACT every so often just to keep things poppin.Check out the sticky at the top for tea recipes especially the fpes; fairly certain that's what you are looking for.

Throw some seabird guano in with that compost and it will

Rasta Roy said:

Throw some seabird guano in with that compost and it will

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better to keep them separate, adding nutrients to a compost tea can delay or even lower the microbe numbers in your tea.
besides, more often than not, the soil isn't devoid of nutrients anyhow, and adding all those microbes can help the plant use whats already there.
it's fascinating to me how little the plant actually needs to grow well, in regards to nutrients anyways.
especially with a fantastic microbial soil-web

Water is a solvent yeah.. that info can be used to your advantage or disadvantage

If vegging slow..0ppm water can be a bit dangerous.
(Ex. like when u have a plant in veg for a really long time under weak light waiting for the flower room)
Could leach your magnesium out then start a lockup..
Though if 'flushing' or pulling metals it may be near ideal..

That said..
Pure worm leachate (liquid out the bottom of a worm farm) is a little higher in nutrients like N but
..Yea, Grease is right..

It's the microbes in the tea, (which can multiply beyond factors of 100000 while brewing )
That do a lot of work..

They run around, eat, shit, f-ck, hunt/hide, die and via those processes, (basically) unavailable nutrients become bio available in the rhizospheres

Spilled guts anyone?

It's also amazing what a little Epsom salt spray can do..

I would make a mixture with 1/8tsp dissolved well per litre

A little foliar to the underside stomata and within three days you should be lush if magnesium was low

The sulphur also helps pull more vitamins as mentioned which helps develop flavour

As I'm sure most of you guys have seen there is a thread here in the organic section containing like 10 or so different recipes for aact I went for the first one because it seemed the most simple, however after hearing what you guys had to say I'm not so sure it will be the most affective becuase it calls for the use of bat and sea bird guano as well as worm castings so this brings me to the question what is a good recipe for I crwasing microbial populations in the tea the most efficient way
If anyone can provide more info on fpe that would also be appreciated I already bought the earth worm casting bat and sea bird guano maxi crop and liquid karma as well as unsulfered molasses so I would like to use then to make some form of nutrient tea or even add then to my soil if possible idk shout out those ideas!

cookieman275 said:

As I'm sure most of you guys have seen there is a thread here in the organic section containing like 10 or so different recipes for aact I went for the first one because it seemed the most simple, however after hearing what you guys had to say I'm not so sure it will be the most affective becuase it calls for the use of bat and sea bird guano as well as worm castings so this brings me to the question what is a good recipe for I crwasing microbial populations in the tea the most efficient way
If anyone can provide more info on fpe that would also be appreciated I already bought the earth worm casting bat and sea bird guano maxi crop and liquid karma as well as unsulfered molasses so I would like to use then to make some form of nutrient tea or even add then to my soil if possible idk shout out those ideas!

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you can simply do two teas, i'd do a AACT first, and a week later (if you KNOW it's needed) then do the nutrient tea.

fpes are easy, go dig up a bunch of dandelions (make sure you get the taproot) and either grind em up, or put them in a bucket straight, and LITFA for like 4 months.
and yes... it will smell when disturbed, best to NOT stir it with your nose near it...
I did a bunch of dandelion and comfrey leaves in a 5 gallon bucket, with like 3 gallons of rainwater in it, and then 6 months later I used it, at about a ratio of a pint per 3 gallons.
I have used it at a 1/1 ratio as well, and it did fine BUT this was about 16 months after starting it.
does amazing things to jasmine, lavender, comfrey, and hybrid tea roses.
ironically I only used it once for my cannabis, worked well, but I don't normally do teas anyways.

cookieman275 said:

so this brings me to the question what is a good recipe for I crwasing microbial populations in the tea the most efficient way

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Ingredients for a 250L/hr airpump:
6L water
2 Tbsp. molasses (about 0.5% of the volume of water - see link below)
1 cup quality wormcastings (about 2,4% of the volume of water)

Procedure:
Put 6L water in a bucket, insert your airpump and turn it on.
Add in the molasses - you may want to pre-dissolve them in a cup of warm water.
When they're mixed in well, add the wormcastings. You can put them in the water directly or have them in a cloth teabag-style.
Bubble for 24-48 hours at room temperature.

The aim is to grow a good diversity of active, aerobic bacteria, fungi and protozoa - nematodes aren't abundant in ACT (they usually drown). To achieve this, you need to have sufficient aeration from your air pump -- you need to have a dissolved oxygen rate at or above 6 PPM (parts per million) to have aerobic conditions.
If you don't, you will be growing less advantageous microorganisms, even if the tea isn't smellably anaerobic (yet). I saw this happen looking at my first (underaerated) compost tea under the microscope: after 40 hrs there were so many actinobacteria that it looked like a haystack LOL. So I fed it to my brassicas in the garden and started over, aerating better

I followed Tim Wilson's way of calculating the amount of air flow and the maximum volume of water that can be properly aerated with it: http://www.microbeorganics.com/#More_on_Compost_Tea_2013_
Wilson's recipe determines the amounts of molasses and castings by percentual proportion - and I really liked that as it scales up or down easily

I think this is as simple as it will get, hope it helps

It's seem pretty self explanatory of course an AACT tea would deliver nutrients there are nutrients in the materials used to make it but the main purpose is to breed your micro-orginisms which then will feed your plants but at that point will be increasing the the process and draining you soil more quickly then normal of the nutrients so the better question would be what next after then tea and when , which would depend on what soil and how long the plant has been in the soil / root mass.

I use The Mini-Microbulator Airlift Microbial Extrapolator

Five gallons of water with two cups compost and one cup of molasses. Smells delicious

I use four cups to a gallon and water everything including my cooking tubs. Top dress later if need be but it never needs to be.